Intro: B5 B5 G5 Naked and retched and retching on a hotel bathroom floor, A5 somewhere in the City B5 G5 Three days no sleeping, not eating, not feeling good anymore A5 E5 G5 Drenched in sweat and self-pity now, it's not a pretty sight G5 A5 B5 G5 What to say in my defense, G5 A5 B5 I was imperfect tense G5 A5 D5 A5 G5 E5 Used to have such balance, but I don't know where it went E5 A5 B5 So won't you be my present sense B5 (Occasionally hammer on and off from 4th fret to 2nd on the D string) B5 G5 Breaking, I'm shaking, it's taking a long long time A5 To come down off this murderous medication B5 G5 Trying to remember, my reasons for running myself A5 E5 G5 into the ground with such dedication G5 A5 B5 G5 What to say in my defense, G5 A5 B5 I was imperfect tense G5 A5 D5 A5 G5 E5 Used to have such balance, but I don't know where it went Em A Cadd(b9)-A Em7--A So won't you be my present sense, sense B5 A5 G5 D5 A5 Cos it's not meant to be D5 G5 B5 A5 G5 I am lost at sea E5 D5 A5 G5 A5 So mermaids sing to me D5 Of the better times and the things that can be B5 Like the diamonds in the Mediterranean sea D5 Or the beatings and sleeping and times that I took B5 And of washing the drink and the drugs from my blood G5 A5 And I've nothing to say in my defense G5 A5 I'm far from perfect I'm still tense G5 A5 They say that love can change you once G5 A5 Please say that love can change me once G5 Come on change me End on G